Java Job Trends in Croydon

Java
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing Java 28 28 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 37.84% 25.45% 14.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 82.35% 50.91% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,400 £66,250 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.22% -10.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - - £82,250
South London median annual salary £82,500 £67,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +37.50%

All Programming Languages
Croydon

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 34 55 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 45.95% 50.00% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 37
10th Percentile £38,960 £31,700 £50,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £32,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.06%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile - £83,750 £83,750
South London median annual salary £46,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -16.36% -15.38% +8.33%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Java job vacancy trend in Croydon

Java
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) JBoss
1 4 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 25 (89.29%) Amazon ECS
2 25 (89.29%) Amazon EKS
2 25 (89.29%) Serverless
3 21 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
6 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) FTP
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
1 2 (7.14%) SMTP
1 2 (7.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (92.86%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (89.29%) Relational Database
3 19 (67.86%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 28 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 24 (85.71%) JUnit
3 19 (67.86%) JMeter
3 19 (67.86%) Mockito
4 7 (25.00%) Git
5 2 (7.14%) Subversion
5 2 (7.14%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.57%) GitLab
6 1 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 23 (82.14%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (92.86%) Developer
2 25 (89.29%) Java Developer
3 18 (64.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (64.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 15 (53.57%) Mid-Level Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (92.86%) Spring
1 26 (92.86%) Spring Boot
2 25 (89.29%) REST
2 25 (89.29%) Web Services
3 23 (82.14%) Apache Camel
4 19 (67.86%) ActiveMQ
4 19 (67.86%) Hibernate
4 19 (67.86%) HTML
4 19 (67.86%) jQuery
4 19 (67.86%) WireMock
5 18 (64.29%) JSON
5 18 (64.29%) XML
6 4 (14.29%) J2EE
6 4 (14.29%) RESTful
6 4 (14.29%) SOAP
7 3 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (7.14%) Kafka
8 2 (7.14%) Mustache
8 2 (7.14%) Node.js
8 2 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (89.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) VMS
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (96.43%) Agile
2 26 (92.86%) Microservices
2 26 (92.86%) TDD
3 24 (85.71%) BDD
4 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
5 19 (67.86%) Process Management
5 19 (67.86%) Workflow
6 18 (64.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (57.14%) SDLC
8 7 (25.00%) DevOps
8 7 (25.00%) Scrum
9 5 (17.86%) Kanban
9 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security
10 2 (7.14%) Configuration Management
10 2 (7.14%) OO
10 2 (7.14%) Process Improvement
10 2 (7.14%) Project Management
10 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
11 1 (3.57%) Biometrics
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) Python
2 21 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (67.86%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Groovy
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
4 2 (7.14%) Ruby
5 1 (3.57%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 22 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (92.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (67.86%) Kibana
3 4 (14.29%) Ansible
4 2 (7.14%) Nagios
4 2 (7.14%) Terraform
5 1 (3.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Dynatrace
1 19 (67.86%) Splunk
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle